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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 446 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that both Houses 

of Congress should reconvene on or before December 18, 2013, to take 

appropriate action to enact legislation extending the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program until January 1, 2015. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 16, 2013 

Ms. JACKSON LEE submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 

the Committee on Ways and Means 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

both Houses of Congress should reconvene on or before 

December 18, 2013, to take appropriate action to enact 

legislation extending the Emergency Unemployment 

Compensation Program until January 1, 2015. 

Whereas the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘EUC Program’’) 

was created on June 30, 2008, when President George 

W. Bush signed the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 

2008 (Public Law 110–252) into law; 

Whereas the EUC Program is the 8th time Congress has created a Federal temporary program that has extended unemployment compensation during an economic slowdown; 

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Whereas the authorization for the EUC Program expires December 28, 2013; 

Whereas unless the EUC Program is extended, more than 

1,300,000 jobless workers will have their benefits cut off 

on December 28, 2013, and nearly another 1,900,000 

jobless workers will lose their unemployment benefits between January 1 and June 30, 2014; 

Whereas it is estimated that failure to extend the EUC Program will result in a loss of 310,000 jobs next year because of reduced consumer demand; 

Whereas it is estimated that failure to extend the EUC Program will reduce economic growth by as much as 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2014; 

Whereas the Congressional Budget Office reported in 2012 

that assistance for the unemployed has one of the ‘‘largest effects on employment per dollar of budgetary cost’’ 

because financially stressed unemployed workers spend 

any benefits they receive quickly; 

Whereas failure to extend the EUC Program will further hurt 

an economy already injured by the loss of an estimated 

750,000 jobs resulting from budget cuts mandated by sequestration and the loss of more than 120,000 jobs in the 

first 2 weeks of October 2013 as a consequence of the 

shutdown of the Federal Government; 

Whereas 36 percent of unemployed workers have been out of 

work for more than 6 months, in part because the national economy still has 2,000,000 fewer jobs than before 

the Great Recession began in 2008; and 

Whereas if Congress does not act immediately to extend these 

benefits, a devastating blow will be dealt not only to the 

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millions of Americans who are already struggling, but to 

our economy: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that both Houses of Congress should recon3 vene on or before December 18, 2013, to take appropriate 

4 action to enact legislation extending the Emergency Un5 employment Compensation Program until January 1, 

6 2015. 

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